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I recall when we're writing conference papers on Sino-Soviet Conflict...
The entry of mainland China into WTO more or less led to globalization...Now Russia is (un)wittingly trying to follow China into WTO. Will it reinforce similar development within Kremlin? International trade law is demanding in terms of capacity to assimilate, as Beijing found out.

Moreover, in Central Asia, Beijing is asserting its national strategic interest and expanding bilateral relations - ultimately at cost of Russia.

Both Russia and mainland China are intrinsically linked to their historical antecedents and will invariably find difficulties in breaking-out from it. However mainland China is demonstrating a willingness to become a modern state on the global stage - although it has a long way yet to go. Russia is still bogged down in Kremlin bureaucracy.

Putin is one of the most recognisable figures on the international stage and was recently elected by Forbes as the most powerful man in the world.
No doubt it is expected that a man of Putin's "grandstanding" wants to leave a legacy for posterity. As he is not a reformer, but a traditionalist, he sees the preservation of Russian values as his vocation. What could be more appropriate than the revival of pan-Slavism?
Hadn't the tug of war two weeks ago between the EU and Kremlin over Ukraine kept the world in suspense? In the end Putin won, by reining Viktor Yanukovich in. Putin's ambition is to woe several former Soviet bloc countries to join the Eurasian Customs union, his brainchild of defending Russia's sphere of influence against the West. Unfortunately Viktor Janukovich is not a leader, who believes in realpolitik, but in personal interests shared by his cronies. Their businesses will have a lot to lose, should Ukraine sign the association agreement with the EU.
As countries in Central Asia and the Caucasus are wrestling away from a troubled past to find their own national identity, a "Hobbesian struggle of all against all", will continue. Putin knows the rules of the game well. He will fight tooth and nail to keep this region as Russia's backyard.

masterpiece assessment.but i found beguiling the pretensions still allured in the American exceptional-ism .
a lithe thesis a la f. zakaria divining the era as the postamerican world and the rise of the rest[ the G-0 world of i. Bremer] with a multipolar geopolitical corollary divests such grandstands their rational.

Lenin didn't have electricity in mind. What he actually had in mind was that communism could sustain only if the power of soviets (or bolshevicks in fact) made real efforts to transfer the Russian economy to the new era. Without real efforts there would be no economic power, and thus no influence to trigger a communist revolution. So, Lenin viewed Russia as a plattsdarm and not a country he really loved. In this context, Putin's Russia is "soviet power" without electricity - with no real efforts to fight corruption and trigger an economic growth.

It's actually kind of sad, and pointless. The US and UK and EU and many advanced countries have systems where failure is punished by loss 0f power. When you fail in politics in those countries no one puts you in jail, or shoots you, but you can no longer tell other people what to do or (as in many faux democracies) continue to kill the opposition with impunity. Russia seems exempt from this kind of self-correction. It's as if the entire population wants to be punished, or engage in some sort of self-flagellation, as if a "strong" leader will save them from their own foolishness. Many in Russia still support him, and would even if it were proven as a fact that he committed crimes and stole from the people. Mere failure is no where near enough to get him to leave.

The tragedy of Russia as i see it is that in terms of intellectual personnel capable of changing their nation they are no short of it .. but this is i am afraid where public and private administration and allocation of resources comes to mind .. and i case of Russia it is not there yet!!

Russia today is in a much better position today that is was when the Soviet Union fell apart. They now have a resemblance of a free market economy that allows for more efficient allocation of resources which is not different than the west. The nuclear weapons they have still service a useful purpose in that they act as a military deterrent. As Lenin commented that at times it is necessary to take a step backwards in order to go forward, Russia has been doing that in recent years. But once they get various factors of production and other economic variables in line the will once again move forward. The Russians are still there and their dream of being a super power still exists.

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